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Trixie
Metascore
26 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 28 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 28
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 28
  3. Negative: 16 out of 28
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  1. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Sean Axmaker
    67
    In a summer of cardboard figures in splashy spectacles, that makes for a refreshing change, an intriguing, entertaining and altogether sweetly mystifying misfire. In other words, another quintessentially Alan Rudolph picture.
  2. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Wilmington
    63
    A cranky failure with brilliant moments.
  3. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jami Bernard
    63
    Trixie has "cult favorite" written all over it. That is to say, the general public is likely to say ixnay.
  4. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Jay Carr
    63
    There are so many wonderful moments in Trixie and so few films like it that you wish Rudolph had given it a few more rewrites.
  5. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Robert Horton
    60
    For me, Trixie finds its own peculiar groove, and-buoyed by a compulsively watchable actress-folds neatly into the off-center work of a distinctive American director.
  6. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    60
    So much of the film is so funny, inspired and sophisticated, the performances so richly nuanced, that many viewers, Rudolph admirers in particular, will be inclined to forgive a little self-indulgence on the part of this authentic auteur.
  7. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    50
    This is not the sort of movie you make it your business to see in a theater. But if you're ever surfing cable TV and come across it, you'll linger.
  8. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Mike Clark
    50
    Eventually evolves into a murder mystery that isn't very compelling.
  9. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Rosenbaum
    50
    The movie does have a certain amount of star power and occasional bursts of inventive mise en scene, which do a good job of diverting us so we don't realize that not much else is going on.
  10. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Richard T. Jameson
    48
    This is one Rudolph opus that leaves no afterglow.
  11. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    40
    In the long, hit-and-miss career of writer-director Alan Rudolph, this misbegotten comedy falls squarely into the miss bin.
  12. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Bryan Poyser
    40
    With his new film (which he also wrote), Rudolph seems content to slap a flimsy film-noir plot on an unending stream of malapropisms and word games and call it a "screwball noir."
  13. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Shawn Levy
    33
    A movie built on one joke -- an old one -- and an incoherent, even idiotic plot.
  14. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: F. X. Feeney
    30
    Director Alan Rudolph kills this promising film off with a combination of bad writing and wrong-headed direction.
  15. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    25
    The acting is solid and the heroine's quirky dialogue is amusing for a while. But repetitious writing and a weakly constructed story turn the promising premise into a disappointing mishmash of crime, politics, and show business.
  16. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Sara Wildberger
    25
    Every character is quirky, and each has a schtick.
  17. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Desmond Ryan
    25
    Wastes an A-list cast in a sorry send-up of B-movie private-eye cliches.
  18. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    25
    Torturously whimsical gumshoe caper.
  19. Dallas Observer
    Reviewed by: Gregory Weinkauf
    20
    Happily stuck between a rock and the deep blue sea.
  20. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    20
    Despite its occasional flashes of brilliance (every Rudolph film has them), this unsavory stew never comes to a boil.
  21. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Desson Thomson
    20
    Although the hallmarks of Rudolph movies can be found everywhere -- they don't add up to the usual magic this time.
  22. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Foreman
    12
    It's so painful to sit through you eventually stop feeling sorry for the floundering cast.
  23. San Francisco Examiner
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    12
    Highfalutin swill determined to pass itself off as a jazzy caper.
  24. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Andrew O'Hehir
    10
    Classic Rudolph: a tone of sweet-edged, slightly kooky melancholy, a terrific cast mostly left to its own devices and a few intriguing moments. Not, I'm sorry to say, a movie.
  25. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: J. Hoberman
    10
    As overlong and undermotivated as it is absentmindedly incoherent.
  26. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    10
    Where's the comedy?
  27. Time
    Reviewed by: Richard Corliss
    10
    If this retro crime comedy had been a Broadway play, it would have closed out of town.
  28. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    0
    The whole movie is like that: cute, dead and endless.
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